From: Alex Riesen <fork0@t-online.de>
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:16:11 GMT
Subject: Re: file rename causes history to disappear
Message-ID: <20060907101611.GA15981@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vmz9c7pzm.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano, Wed, Sep 06, 2006 21:29:49 +0200:
> The only people who will get burnt by this change are the ones
> with metacharacters in their pathnames, so it is relative safe
> change.

May be make metacharacters the default behaviour, but provide a
command-line option to disable it? It'll be seldom used, but would
provide a way to disambiguate input for scripts and make possible
(even if a bit harder) to use such filenames.